Lauren Poe - Sports Analytics Developer, ESPN

Lauren Poe is part of ESPN’s sports analytics team, which is responsible for metrics like Total QBR, Power Indices for Basketball, Football, and Soccer, and Strength of Record for college football. She has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Oklahoma, spent time as a math teacher, and got her ESPN in the Stats and Analysis department. In this conversation, Lauren talks about…

• Her career path from math teacher to ESPN

• Her early years in the ESPN Stats & Analysis group

• The challenges and importance of data cleaning

• Steps she took to join ESPN’s analytics team

• What she does as a sports analytics developer

• Creating and maintaining ESPN’s metrics

• Her favorite college football metrics

• Communicating data well in writie

• How she watches games, especially Oklahoma football

Then, TruMedia’s Sergio De La Espriella joins the show to discuss Paul’s conversation with Lauren.

Show Links

• Follow Lauren on Twitter: @laurenpoe.

• Follow the Women in Sports Data on Twitter: @WinSportsData.

• To check out the Women in Sports Data website, click here.

• To check out ESPN’s 2022 College Football Playoff predictor, click here.

• To check great article explaining ESPN’s Football Power Index (FPI), click here.

• Follow @TruMediaSports on Twitter.

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